Heraclides of Taranto, (3rd-2nd century BC), was an ancient Greek physician of the empirical school who wrote commentaries on the works of Hippocrates. He came from Taranto, was a pupil of Mantias, and probably lived during the second or second century BC, somewhat later than Apollonius Empiricus and Glaucias. He was a follower of the Empirical School, and wrote some books on Matter medical, which were frequently by Galen, but of which only a few fragments have survived. He was also one of the first people to write commentaries on the Hippocratic treatises and is often d by Celio Aureliano and other early authors. Notes This article incorporates a translation of the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology edited by William Smith (1867), currently in the public domain.
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